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Show WHY PRICE OF FURS IS HIGH Manifold Handling Enhances the Cost Many, Times Over Their Original Price. The Siberian peasants, hunters and trappers of animals for fur In the vast marshy forests of Siberia hava appealed through their communal village vil-lage associations to their Russo Eng-llsh Eng-llsh board of trade and chamber of commerce with the request to extend to them some assistance In the establishment es-tablishment of Immediate and direct trade relations with the English buyers buy-ers of fur goods. The complaint Is that they are completely dependent on the small buyer-up man and the forestalled, to whom they are compelled com-pelled to sell for a trifle sable and other valuable and rare furs These mall buyer up men and various middlemen mid-dlemen sell goods later on to other dealers, and so on. until finally the furs are sold at Nlshnl Novgorod and Moscow, for the resale again to the representatives of the large Ielpzlg firms, who. In turn dispose of tl em in the English market. The manifold handling of furs enhances their price greatly, so that by the time they reach the Kngllsh purchaser the prices are colossal as compared with their original cost. |